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Tigersalamander (Ambystoma tigrinum), Seitenansicht 1🦎

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SpeciesCaudataAmbystomatidae
Amphibians

🦎Tiger salamander

Ambystoma tigrinum (Green, 1825)

The tiger salamander, or eastern tiger salamander, is a species of mole salamander and one of the largest terrestrial salamanders in North America.

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Also called
Salamandra, Eastern Tiger Salamander
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.01 kg
Body length
0.33 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
25 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Tiger salamander

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.01 kg
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Figures vary

  • 0.08 kgAmphiBIOv1 (Oliveira et al. 2017)
Body length
0.33 m
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Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
25 yearsrecord 25 years · AmphiBIO
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
28 days
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 37
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Diet
arthropods, vertebrates
AmphiBIO
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Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Tiger salamander yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAmphibia
  4. ›orderCaudata
  5. ›familyAmbystomatidae
  6. ›genusAmbystoma
  7. ›speciesAmbystoma tigrinum
Full lineage
  1. classAmphibians · Amphibia
  2. orderSalamanders & newts · Caudata
  3. familyAmbystomatidae
  4. genusAmbystoma
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classAmphibians · Amphibia
  9. superorderBatrachia
  10. orderSalamanders & newts · Caudata
  11. superfamilySalamandroidea
  12. familyAmbystomatidae
  13. genusAmbystoma
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tiikerisalamanteri (fi), Ambystoma tygrysia (pl), Tigersalamander (de), Ambystoma tigrinum (es), Ambystoma tigrinum (fr), Ambystoma tigrinum (it) … and 19 more languages
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